Chan Lowe: Google glasses

Google glasses

Google glasses

Chan Lowe

This is very exciting. A brand-new way to not pay attention to what we’re doing. People already blunder into traffic or lampposts because they’re so busy texting or checking their social media while they walk. Google is about to make this much easier.

The Google glasses device appears to dovetail with the company’s experimentation with a car that drives itself. It only makes sense that you cannot have one without the other.

The danger, of course, is that this brings us one step closer to never having to go anywhere to conduct an entire life’s worth of interaction with other humans. We can devolve into inert, atrophied, gelatinous organisms plugged in electronically to our fellow man, fed by liquid nutrients pumped through tubes. Our whole existence will be virtual. In fact, the virtual will become the real. “Reality,” as old-timers remember it, will be a pale reflection of experience, and worse, one devoid of advertising and pop-up windows.

Then all that will be left is for Facebook to acquire Google in a stock-and-cash arrangement, and Mark Zuckerberg will have bested Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and every megalomaniac since who ever sought to rule the world.